{"id":14365,"date":"2023-05-27T12:45:50","date_gmt":"2023-05-27T10:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radici-italiane.com\/tuscany-box-pasticceria-taddeucci\/"},"modified":"2023-08-05T10:44:24","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T08:44:24","slug":"tuscany-box-buccellato-lucca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radici-italiane.com\/en\/tuscany-box-buccellato-lucca\/","title":{"rendered":"Buccellato from Lucca – Tuscany Box"},"content":{"rendered":"

Learn more about Lucca’s buccellato, part of the Tuscany Box by Radici Italiane.<\/h4>\n

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Inside the walls of Lucca<\/strong>, in the beautiful setting of Piazza San Michele, is the Taddeucci bakery<\/strong><\/a>, founded in 1881, which preserves the ancient recipe of the city’s traditional sweet: the buccellato<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

It is a toasted bread, dark brown in colour and shiny due to the brushing done with egg and sugar. It is filled inside with sultanas and aniseed. It goes very well with a vinsanto<\/strong><\/a> or a good passito<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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The name derives from the Latin “buccella”, meaning morsel. This simply prepared cake was already eaten by the Romans in its characteristic doughnut shape.<\/strong> In Lucca<\/strong><\/a>, this product has remained solidly part of the city’s food and wine tradition and it is still common to bring buccellato to friends and family as a Sunday dessert.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We enter this historic bakery<\/strong> and suddenly it is like going back to the 19th century. On the wooden shelf, buccellato<\/em><\/strong> plays the absolute starring role, in all its forms. The tin box, depicting the church of San Michele just a few steps away from the bakery, fully conveys the idea of the link between this product and the city of which it is the emblem.<\/p>\n

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Marino, who represents the fifth generation of the Taddeucci family,<\/strong> recites a typical saying of the city of the Walls<\/strong>. ‘He who comes to Lucca and does not eat buccellato<\/strong><\/a>, it is as if he had never been there’. This product represents the soul of the city and its wonderful historic centre, where gastronomic<\/strong> traditions<\/strong> and the cult of the local product<\/strong> are handed down from generation to generation.<\/p>\n

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